I Killed the Demon King. It Was a Mistake. Chapter 149

I Killed the Demon King. It Was a Mistake.

Chapter 149

Caesar’s biting criticism hardened the expression of the beast people.

“What about the succubi and vampires? Do you know they crossed from the demon realm to the continent, suffering through all kinds of torture and dying like trash? Just looking at their state would make them unable to even beg to live.”

“…What do you gain by provoking me right now? Do you want to die?”

“It makes me feel good. The human alliance’s attacks were fought on the frontlines by vampires and succubi. And our doppelgangers infiltrated enemy lines, risking their lives to bring back information. So what exactly have you done? Didn’t you sell us out to protect your own territory?”

“Wasn’t the human invasion of the demon realm the fault of vampires and succubi?”

“What?”

What nonsense is this now?

“Aren’t humans invading the demon realm because vampires and succubi, who cannot survive without sucking human blood and essence, have been provoking humans for a long time? I even think the humans’ patience in enduring this for nearly 200 years is remarkable.”

“Ah, so the current state of vampires and succubi is their own karma?”

“Yes. They even caused damage to the beast people and Orcs. We could have been satisfied with just our forests and the Red Mountain Range.”

The beast people intention to grab Caesar from behind was evident, his eyes gleaming and his footsteps remaining calm.

“Because vampires and succubi harassed humans so much, they eventually couldn’t bear it and attacked the demon realm. Ultimately, His Majesty the Demon King passed away, and we had no choice but to sign a humiliating ceasefire treaty.”

The beastkin pointed at Caesar.

“That’s why we could hand over vampires and succubi to humans without any guilt. It was those bastards’ fault.”

This would be such an incredible gaslighting that the succubi and vampires would have torn this fox into twelve pieces if they’d heard it directly.

But Caesar was a doppelganger.

He was slightly heated, but rational dialogue was still possible.

“Then why did you hand over the doppelgangers at the same time? What did the doppelgangers do wrong to humans?”

“…Because your kind passed useful military information to vampires and succubi among the humans.”

“No. That’s not true. You’ve been lying this entire time.”

Caesar pulled out Thunder from its hook.

The beast people’s vigilance increased another level.

“You just wanted to survive, so you sold out the doppelgangers. You sold out the succubi and vampires just to survive yourselves. Don’t blur the essence of this, beastkin.”

Caesar pointed at the beast people’s eyes.

“You’ve simply given up because the Demon King died and you no longer have the strength to resist humans. If you had been in a situation where you could withstand the human offensive, would you have called a ceasefire? Absolutely not.”

“We just judged that meaningless fighting was unnecessary. Doppelganger.”

“Bullshit. If your territory was closer to humans than to vampires or succubi, you would have fought to the death. Just honestly admit it. You sold out your own kind to survive from humans.”

“No, it’s not like that!”

The fox, whose patience had reached its limit, charged forward.

His low posture cutting through the grassland was like a single breeze crossing a wheat field.

Flexible, fast, and unpredictable.

Caesar was on high alert, wary of the fox’s speed being faster than he expected.

The direction of the fox’s rush changed right in front of Caesar’s nose.

Like wind crossing an old tree, it swept past Caesar’s body and aimed for the back of his neck.

Caesar blocked the dagger full of fire with Thunder.

Clang!

Despite being made of pure magic, the collision sounded like steel striking steel.

Immediately after, the fox’s nimble left claws flew, engulfed in high-temperature flames.

Caesar blocked the attack with Thunder.

Boom!

Even just blocking created a massive explosion with flames flying towards Caesar’s face.

Caesar bent his waist backward to dodge the flames.

The red fox was incredibly wild and instinctive, while simultaneously being deceitful.

This was due to an extreme flexibility and muscle elasticity impossible for a human body structure.

He would dodge Caesar’s axe like a four-legged beast with both hands on the ground, trying to bite the thigh with sharp canines.

Or like a dancer, doing back somersaults to target Caesar’s chin.

He bombarded Caesar with attacks in unimaginable ways.

But Caesar was perfectly responding to the fox’s attacks.

– Attacking left and then hitting right.

– Hitting right and then biting.

– Maintaining a low posture and then striking upward.

Even though he attacks with unpredictable movements, as long as Caesar has psychometry, all of his attacks are futile. 

However, Caesar did not rashly counterattack.

Though he appeared to be a typical fighter, all beast people are ‘magicians’.

Caesar knew that the fox’s ‘real weapon’ had not yet been revealed.

– …He’s not showing any openings.

Caesar could feel the fox gradually becoming anxious.

He had hoped to kill Caesar or render him combat-ineffective with a powerful magic spell when Caesar let his guard down. But since Caesar was so firmly focused on defense, it was driving the fox crazy.

– Can’t be helped.

The fox swept his hand through the empty air.

At that moment, a fire-made spike erupted between Caesar’s legs.

Caesar quickly stepped back and struck away the spike.

Whoosh!

Caesar’s Steel Wind shattered the fire-made spike into pieces.

The fox stuck close and swept his hand downward.

Hot flame energy flowed from above.

Caesar threw Thunder toward the sky.

The spike exploded and scattered into flame-made mist, instantly evaporating the dew on the grass blades.

As the ground’s moisture and dew evaporated, an instant misty steam blocked Caesar’s view.

Though he used psychometry, it seemed unreadable at a distance of 3 meters.

Caesar remained tense, intensely focusing on his eyes and hearing.

Whoosh!

Caesar turned his gaze to the right.

The fox burst through the misty curtain.

He was stabbing a steel dagger, hidden who knows where, into Caesar’s nape.

Caesar scattered the fox’s attack with his axe.

The word ‘scattered’ was very accurate because as soon as Caesar chopped the fox’s attack, it disappeared like chopping a chunk of flame.

It was one of the red fox’s illusionary magic techniques called ‘Holly Hock’.

‘Got me.’

Caesar discovered the fox charging from his left.

The attack was something Caesar could easily follow.

But the fox’s deceptive technique for stealing timing was unparalleled.

Suddenly, Caesar remembered his ‘slow fighting’ with Gideon.

When fighting an opponent with similar speed and strength like now, the key was how well one could steal the opponent’s timing.

There were various ways to steal timing, but Gideon was good at using ‘deceptive techniques’ like this fox.

When signaling a full-body vertical slash, Caesar would predict and raise his axe to block. Then Gideon would suddenly use a horizontal slash to disrupt Caesar’s body balance, gradually stealing the opponent’s timing, which he enjoyed.

Gideon’s swordsmanship, which forced specific actions from the opponent while continuing the offensive and creating openings, was like a work of art.

This fox, though different in nature from Gideon, was the same in stealing Caesar’s timing bit by bit and attacking at an absolutely unblockable angle.

There are exactly two ways to respond to such timing-stealing attacks.

The first is to not get hit at all.

The second is to respond with a movement the opponent cannot predict.

Caesar did not resist Thunde’s horizontal progression.

Instead, he passionately pushed his axe and rotated his body 360 degrees.

As Caesar’s body rotated, the fox’s dagger grazed and passed by Caesar’s nape.

– What the!

The opponent’s big attack missed, and now it was Caesar’s turn.

Caesar swung his axe toward the opponent’s side.

The opponent was left with only two choices.

One was to fearlessly strike down with a dagger and pierce Caesar’s neck, completing a death match.

Or to defend.

The fox made his decision.

Swoooosh!

The fox abandoned his attack and blocked Caesar’s axe.

However, Caesar’s axe, with added rotational force, could not be blocked with an awkward stance, and the opponent was eventually thrown back.

Even at that moment, the fox attempted a counterattack.

A red fire that bloomed from the steel dagger flew toward Caesar’s face.

Caesar lowered his head to avoid the fire.

Sizzle!

However, this did not mean the fox was unscathed.

The current flowing with Thunder had paralyzed the fox’s right hand.

“Huff…”

The fox calmly moved the dagger to his left hand.

Since he now knew that Thunder was a dangerous weapon that emitted lightning, it would be difficult to use it twice.

He would not recklessly try to block Thunder.

The fox reorganized himself for a moment and then charged.

Now he was openly using an illusion technique.

As the fox’s body split into three parts, Caesar could not determine which was the main body even with his ‘Wind Reading’ ability.

Caesar focused intensely on psychometry, carefully waiting until the fox was within 3 meters.

‘Left? Right? Or straight ahead?’

They almost simultaneously entered Caesar’s radius, and he could read the direction of attack.

‘Left.’

The fox’s side kick was aimed at Caesar’s waist.

A trick within a trick.

And with unpredictable attack routes and variety.

From Caesar’s perspective, this fox was no ordinary opponent.

However, the reason Caesar had not used Berserker until now was…

Caesar stepped forward and grabbed the left foot coming for his side with a firm grip.

He was trying to defeat a wizard in close combat.

“…!”

The opponent tried to kick Caesar’s stomach with his right foot, but Caesar had already predicted this.

Caesar slightly dodged the attack and then headbutted the opponent’s nose.

Crack!

“Cough!”

Caesar then thrust Thunder into the opponent’s neck while he was disoriented.

Although the opponent tried to block somehow, Caesar’s strength was superior.

Caesar broke the opponent’s dagger and pushed the sharp axe blade toward the opponent’s forehead.

-I am dying…!

There was absolutely no way to block in this situation.

But until the axe was almost touching his forehead, the opponent did not cry out to be spared.

He did not even close his eyes.

Truly the spirit of a warrior.

Caesar knew that if he kept such an opponent alive, he would definitely torment him until death, but he decided to give this opponent a chance.

He needed to properly hear about the situation of the beast people, and he thought he should hear the story from this fox.

Caesar slightly released the power of Thunder.

At the same time, a heavy impact was delivered to the side of Thunder.

The axe blade grazed the fox’s cheek and passed by.

Immediately after, a massive earth wall rose between Caesar and the beast people.

Caesar stepped back from the fox.

The red fox was inherently only capable of using fire magic.

So who used the wind and earth magic just now?

Caesar looked around.

The beast people who had been watching the duel with sparkling golden eyes entered the moonlight.

They were wolf, tiger, and fox beast people.

But…

“…..”

They were all young.

Even the largest among them could barely reach Caesar’s waist.

“Arang!”

The young beast people ran to the fox who was bleeding and spewed hostility toward Caesar.

“You bad guy! Now we’ll deal with you!”

“Do, don’t bully Arang anymore!”

“Arang! Quick, run away!”

The young beast people were all trembling like aspen leaves.

Now Caesar understood why they had just watched silently while Arang was fighting him.

They were too young to engage in combat.

“…Everyone, run away.”

Arang staggered, discarded his broken dagger, and stood up.

“Remember the place where we were supposed to meet the other adults? Go and tell them about this situation. Tell them the doppelganger has started hunting beast people.”

“B-but Arang!”

Arang created fire daggers in both hands.

“Go, now!”

The young beast people flinched at Arang’s shout.

But like children who didn’t want to be separated from their parents, the young beast people hovered around Arang.

“Why won’t you listen to me! Go now!”

Caesar involuntarily sighed.

Was it like steam suddenly bursting out?

He wondered if this was an intentional sympathy-inducing deception.

But looking at the stubborn fox’s attitude, he seemed more likely to use deception in battle rather than with his tongue.

“Let’s stop.”

Caesar hung Thunder weapon on its hook.

“…What?”

“I said stop. What the hell is this in front of these kids?”

Caesar took a water bottle from his chest, took a swig, and then threw it to the fox.

The fox reflexively caught the water bottle.

“And let’s talk. I need to understand what the fuck this situation is about.”

“…Why would I trust you?”

“So, shall we fight until one of us dies?”

“…”

Caesar sat down right where he was.

“So sit down in front of me.”

Arang absolutely could not understand Caesar.

Was this really the warrior who was just fighting to kill him moments ago?

What on earth was this doppelganger talking about?

‘He’s definitely several steps ahead of me.’

Arang was a fox with quick wits.

He knew Caesar was hiding some of his strength.

His eyes and ears were always a step ahead of Arang’s, and he had deliberately matched his strength and speed with Arang.

Though it was a question he had while fighting, looking at this guy now sitting disarmed made it completely impossible to understand his mind.

‘Why exactly…?’

Was it to play with Arang?

Or to extract information about the beast people and then exterminate them all?

Or was there another intention? He couldn’t tell.

But there was only one conclusion.

He had to go along with this guy’s mood for now.

Because at the moment his mind changed, he could kill all the children here.

Arang sat down facing Caesar.

“…What’s your real intention?”

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